Inventor
HOFFMEISTER BJORN
US40 patents
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AMAZON TECH INC
38 patentsUS9697828B1Jul 4, 2017
Keyword detection modeling using contextual and environmental information
AMAZON TECH INC362 citations99
US9390708B1Jul 12, 2016
Low latency and memory efficient keywork spotting
AMAZON TECH INC152 citations99
US9159319B1Oct 13, 2015
Keyword spotting with competitor models
AMAZON TECH INC180 citations99
US9899021B1Feb 20, 2018
Stochastic modeling of user interactions with a detection system
AMAZON TECH INC92 citations98
US9706406B1Jul 11, 2017
Security measures for an electronic device
AMAZON TECH INC81 citations98
US11302310B1Apr 12, 2022
Language model adaptation
AMAZON TECH INC63 citations97
US10304440B1May 28, 2019
Keyword spotting using multi-task configuration
AMAZON TECH INC103 citations97
US10229356B1Mar 12, 2019
Error tolerant neural network model compression
AMAZON TECH INC192 citations97
US9070367B1Jun 30, 2015
Local speech recognition of frequent utterances
AMAZON TECH INC167 citations97
US9672812B1Jun 6, 2017
Qualifying trigger expressions in speech-based systems
AMAZON TECH INC92 citations96
US11361763B1Jun 14, 2022
Detecting system-directed speech
AMAZON TECH INC84 citations95
US8996372B1Mar 31, 2015
Using adaptation data with cloud-based speech recognition
AMAZON TECH INC106 citations95
US9589560B1Mar 7, 2017
Estimating false rejection rate in a detection system
AMAZON TECH INC36 citations94
US9286883B1Mar 15, 2016
Acoustic echo cancellation and automatic speech recognition with random noise
AMAZON TECH INC26 citations94
US11574628B1Feb 7, 2023
Deep multi-channel acoustic modeling using multiple microphone array geometries
AMAZON TECH INC22 citations93
US10726830B1Jul 28, 2020
Deep multi-channel acoustic modeling
AMAZON TECH INC33 citations93
US9886948B1Feb 6, 2018
Neural network processing of multiple feature streams using max pooling and restricted connectivity
AMAZON TECH INC21 citations93
US10373612B2Aug 6, 2019
Anchored speech detection and speech recognition
AMAZON TECH INC34 citations92
US9600764B1Mar 21, 2017
Markov-based sequence tagging using neural networks
AMAZON TECH INC27 citations92
US9190057B2Nov 17, 2015
Speech model retrieval in distributed speech recognition systems
AMAZON TECH INC17 citations92
US10923111B1Feb 16, 2021
Speech detection and speech recognition
AMAZON TECH INC49 citations91
US9286897B2Mar 15, 2016
Speech recognizer with multi-directional decoding
AMAZON TECH INC20 citations91
US10964315B1Mar 30, 2021
Monophone-based background modeling for wakeword detection
AMAZON TECH INC10 citations85
US11551685B2Jan 10, 2023
Device-directed utterance detection
AMAZON TECH INC7 citations84
US10121471B2Nov 6, 2018
Language model speech endpointing
AMAZON TECH INC15 citations84
US9852729B2Dec 26, 2017
Low latency and memory efficient keyword spotting
AMAZON TECH INC10 citations84
US9378735B1Jun 28, 2016
Estimating speaker-specific affine transforms for neural network based speech recognition systems
AMAZON TECH INC13 citations84
US10152973B2Dec 11, 2018
Speech model retrieval in distributed speech recognition systems
AMAZON TECH INC7 citations83
US9449598B1Sep 20, 2016
Speech recognition with combined grammar and statistical language models
AMAZON TECH INC8 citations82
US11657804B2May 23, 2023
Wake word detection modeling
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations73
US10832662B2Nov 10, 2020
Keyword detection modeling using contextual information
AMAZON TECH INC3 citations73
US9892726B1Feb 13, 2018
Class-based discriminative training of speech models
AMAZON TECH INC5 citations73
US11475881B2Oct 18, 2022
Deep multi-channel acoustic modeling
AMAZON TECH INC3 citations72
US12211517B1Jan 28, 2025
Endpointing in speech processing
AMAZON TECH INC4 citations71
US12236950B2Feb 25, 2025
Device-directed utterance detection
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations63
US12014726B2Jun 18, 2024
Language model adaptation
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations62
US11514901B2Nov 29, 2022
Anchored speech detection and speech recognition
AMAZON TECH INC1 citations60
US12412567B1Sep 9, 2025
Low latency audio processing techniques
AMAZON TECH INC0 citations51